WBConfCall 2024.09.05-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

Help desk issues

• ftp site not accessible - remove all links to the ftp site on WB with accompanying announcement?
• GFF3 and GFT files for CB4856 - Hawaiian strain

WormBase X/Twitter account

• https://x.com/wormbase
• Has 2934 followers. It used to publish WormBase blogs automatically but stopped in May 2023
• Todd: As for the blog integration: X disallowed third-party integration like that

Minutes

WB fees

• Caltech agreed to be setup to receive fees and donations

WB Grant

• Still waiting on announcement of funding

X/Twitter issue

• Todd is working on a solution to auto-post WB blogs to X

FTP site

• Todd/web team will remove links to FTP site and mentions of it

Spurious files in Downloads site

• Empty, spurious GFF, GTF and other files for non-core species in Downloads
• For example, the Hawaiian strain files for GTF and transcript and protein FASTA files at https://downloads.wormbase.org/releases/WS293/species/c_elegans/PRJNA275000/ are essentially empty files (<50 bytes each)
• Hinxton agreed to take a look to audit the download file generation to purge spurious (essentially empty) data files